MAR-ECO 2003 - Arni Fridriksson

Citation

Hafsteinn G. Gudfinnson, Høgni Debes, Tone Falkenhaug, Eilif Gaard, Ástthor Gislason, Hildur Petursdottir, Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, and Hedinn Valdimarsson. 2008. Abundance and productivity of the pelagic ecosystem along a transect across the northern Mid- Atlantic Ridge in June 2003. ICES CM 2008/C:12. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2429

Contact: Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn

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Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

MAR-ECO (2003 - 2010)was an international exploratory study of the animals inhabiting the northern mid-Atlantic. Scientists from 16 nations around the northern Atlantic Ocean participated in research of the waters around the mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores. This data set is subset of the data collected, and comprises presence/absence records for zooplankton and nekton, collected in 2003 on R/V Arni Fridriksson. Contact person Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, Marine Research Institute, Iceland, e-mail: steini@hafro.is

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Nekton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Arni Fridriksson, research vessel, Submarine ridges, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Iceland

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,912; MinLat: 57,97 - MaxLong: -26,165; MaxLat: 65,037 [WGS84]

Iceland [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

5 July 2003 - 29 July 2003
Unknown

Parameter